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alterom • yesterday at 10:02 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Indeed.

The following (informally described) symptoms are well-known consequences of ADHD:

- Delayed Sleep Phase [1]

- Staying Up Late [2]

- Revenge Bedtime Procrastination [3]

Newsflash, getting a full night's sleep helps alleviate ADHD symptoms, while being perpetually sleep-deprived wrecks us.

But there are reasons why we stay up late. Simply forcing us to sleep doesn't address those reasons.

Which is why I wrote about it so much, and keep spamming these links even though it feels so darn obvious. Not to the authors of the study, it appears.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Delayed%20Sleep%20Phase

[2] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Staying%20Up%20Late

[3] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Revenge%20Bedtime


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parpfish • yesterday at 10:07 PM

going to bed early feels like i'm a child being punished.

staying up late rocks. its the funnest. why would i give that up? just to pay attention better at work? no thanks.

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autoexec • yesterday at 11:55 PM

> Newsflash, getting a full night's sleep helps alleviate ADHD symptoms, while being perpetually sleep-deprived wrecks us.

being perpetually sleep-deprived wrecks everyone. If you've got ADHD getting the sleep you need won't cure it, but it will make it easier to manage. If you don't have ADHD, but a lot of the symptoms fit for you, getting sleep might those all go away.

hatthew • yesterday at 10:17 PM

Lots of the things on this site are normal things that everyone experiences to some degree ...right?

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